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For years now, those who believe that the United States could one day be forced into darkness as a result of a massive EMP strike have been mocked and laughed at. However, as tensions between the U.S. and North Korea continue to rise, so too do the chances that our country may be hit by an electromagnetic pulse bomb and sent back to the stone age in a matter of seconds. Indeed, the threat is becoming more and more real with each passing day. According to experts, North Korea could be gearing up to unleash a massive EMP strike against the United States, which would scramble all electronics within the region and send our country into the darkness in no time at all. These experts warn that such an attack could directly or indirectly kill  90 percent  of the United States population within just one year, making an EMP strike from the North Korean regime one of the most serious threats that America faces today. The warning comes from Dr. William Graham and Dr. Peter Vincent Pr...

Shadi Hatem / APA images The United Nations must “review Israel’s status as a law-abiding member of the United Nations”, UN Human Rights Council special investigator Michael Lynk said on October 26. Lynk spoke at a press conference in New York in advance of his presentation to the Third Committee on October 27 in which he  outlined  violence and lack of accountability, collective punishment and forcible transfers, and the denial of right to development as the chief violations of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. He proposed a UN General Assembly resolution that asked the International Court of Justice at The Hague to issue an advisory opinion on whether Israel’s occupation was illegal, as the difference between a legal and an illegal occupation defines the sanction tools that the UN could use against it. “Now we regard Israel as the lawful occupant of the Palestinian territories, albeit with a range illegal features to it,” Lynk said. ...

On October 26, former Qatar Prime Minister Hamad Bin Jassim said during an interview to the Qatari national TV that Doha supported the Syrian opposition armed groups and even terrorists like the al-Nusra Front (the local al-Qaeda branch) in Syria in coordination with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the US. “Anything [weapons] that was sent [to Syria] would go through Turkey and was coordinated with the US, and the distribution of anything was via US forces. Turkey, we and our Saudi brothers… There could be a mistake and support was given to a fiction [al-Nusra Front], but not ISIS. They are exaggerating… Maybe there was a relation with the al-Nusra Front. Maybe I don’t know about this. But I can say that even if this was the case, it was decided that the al-Nusra Front was not acceptable. The support for it stopped,” Bin Jassim said. Bin Jassim went on and revealed that Saudi Arabia changed its position on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently. According to Bin Jassim, Saudi...

On October 27, a commander of the US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) group Jaysh Ahrar al-Ashayer was assassinated in Daraa governorate, according to opposition sources. Abd Allah Khalf al-Eafash al-Eiadat was killed after an IED targeted his car on the Smad-Semej road in the northern Daraa countryside. Jaysh Ahrar al-Ashayer is known for its attack on Syrian Arab Army (SAA) positions near the Syrian-Jordanian border on August 19 . Back then, officials of the FSA said that Jaysh Ahrar al-Ashayer attacked the SAA from inside the Jordanian territories without the knowledge of the US-led coalition or the approval of Jordan. On October 26, Syrian opposition sources said that Ihsan Awad Hoshan, a commander of Shabab al-Sunnah FSA group, was  assassinated. Ihsan was killed by an IED in Saida town in the eastern Daraa countryside. Back on August 31,  Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the Shabab al-Sunnah militant group in Daraa has access to chem...